Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one time it looked like everything we 'd done in twenty years was going to be spread out on the table — and that included sating up a group to destabilise our closest ally if it got needed . |
| 2 | I mean he was saying look we 're going to go out and we 're going to market Britain to the overseas visitors and they do bring a lot of money into this country , but I mean are we really going to get back to the levels that we 've seen in recent years ? |
| 3 | ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners . |
| 4 | ‘ It comes down to applying a judgement based on the background knowledge we 've acquired from 30 years of monitoring and reporting human rights ’ . |
| 5 | It 's more than we 've had in recent years , judging by the general |
| 6 | Would have they put when they put the boiler in cos the boiler w we 've had in three years . |
| 7 | Now that is not as significant an increase as we 've had in previous years . |
| 8 | John Tame , chief accountant for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund , which was awarded first prize in Category 1 ( best report and accounts from a charity with income over £1m ) , explains : ‘ We 've entered for many years . |
| 9 | The platform we have built over those years is an excellent base from which to become a Total Quality Culture . |
| 10 | The interest rates in this country are now down to their lowest differential with those on the continent that we have seen for many years . |
| 11 | It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years . |
| 12 | As you are aware we will not be receiving all of the Grant that we have applied for this year and have been told by the Sports Council that our Grant is to be reduced over the next 3 years and then cease . |
| 13 | We have argued for many years that the present discrimination on the grounds of sex and state pensions and retirement age is unjustifiable . |
| 14 | What we have witnessed in recent years is a subtle change whereby the courts , often without alluding to the authorities mentioned , have reviewed decisions to test their evidentiary basis . |
| 15 | Libraries are rapidly accepting the doctrine for which we have contended for many years . |
| 16 | We have broken with 40 years of tradition to publish this service as a monthly partwork to ensure you receive all the information and informed comment you need , as you need it . |
| 17 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 18 | CCG were recently re-awarded the contract at Total Oil Marine in Peterhead , which we have held for six years . |
| 19 | We have known for twenty-five years that Einstein 's general theory of relativity predicts that time must have had a beginning in a singularity fifteen billion years ago . |
| 20 | As the right hon. Gentleman knows , the essential basics to make sure that things are right are to keep inflation down , to keep interest rates down , to have the right tax structure and to continue with the improved industrial relations that we have had in recent years . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've got more snow up here and all over the Swiss Alps than we have had in 50 years , ’ said Dr Othmar Buser , whose research centre is perched at 2,660m on the Weissfluhjoch above Davos . |
| 22 | It reflects the fact that we have considerably improved the salary prospects and career prospects of teachers as a result of all the steps that we have taken in recent years . |